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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with
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2. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Grapheme
[-'le
Tilde
ADHD
3. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Phonological Awareness
ADHD
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Phonemic/ decodable words
4. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.
Attention
Diagnostic Teaching
Phonics
Cognitive Assessment
5. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
ESL
Auditory Processing
Diphthong
Modification
6. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.
Affix
Derived Score
Syllable
Top-down Reading Approach
7. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Modern English
Multisensory
Simultaneous teaching
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
8. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Syntax
Receptive language
Latin layer of language
Criterion referenced tests
9. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
VC
Accommodation
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
10. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Expressive language
Affix
Kinesthetic
Age equivalent
11. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
Stanine Scores
VC
Three Layers of Language
Six basic types of syllables
12. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi
Derived Score
Tilde
ADHD
Achievement test
13. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Chall's Stage 3
Achievement test
Quadrigraph
Chall's Stage 4
14. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
Auditory Learners
ESL
Auditory Processing
Semantics
15. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Receptive language
Rate
Percentile
IDEA
16. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Phonology
Raw score
Adolf Kusmaul
MSL
17. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.
Academic Achievement Tests
Derivative
Keith Stanovich
Funding
18. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
V-e
Orthography
Top-down Reading Approach
19. Individual Educational Plan
Quadrigraph
Keith Stanovich
IEP
Phonemic/ decodable words
20. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy
Tilde
Diphthong
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Greek layer of language
21. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile
VAKT
Percentile
Fluency
VV
22. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Linguistic Method
Profile
Phonemic/ decodable words
Chall's Stage 1
23. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
Accent
RTI
Accuracy
Phonological Awareness
24. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Closed Syllable
IMSLEC
Syllable Instruction
James Hinshelwood
25. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
Whole Language
Great Vowel Shift
WRAT
IMSLEC
26. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
Academic Achievement Tests
SBOE
Morpheme
Letter naming Chart
27. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Consonant Digraph
Social language
Latin layer of language
Anglo Saxon
28. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.
Consonant Digraph
Breve
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Phonemic/ decodable words
29. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.
NICHD
Cognitive Assessment
Accommodation
VV
30. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Pre-English
Percentile/ percentile rank
Cognition
Anglo Saxon
31. r-controlled syllable
Battery
Vr
Greek layer of language
Phoneme
32. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
Combination
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Derivative
Phonemic Awareness
33. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.
Combination
Chall's Stage 5
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Phonemic Awareness
34. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Anglo Saxon
Digraph
Closed Syllable
35. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language
WIATII
Pre-English
Multi-Sensory Approach
Macron
36. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
Mathew Effect
IMSLEC
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Accent
37. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Stanine Scores
Percentile
Vr
Mastery level
38. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Percentile
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Composite Score
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
39. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.
Suffix
Morpheme
Texas Education Code 38.003
Sound Symbol Association
40. Academic Language Therapy Association
Greek layer of language
ALTA
Anglo Saxon
Cognition
41. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.
Age equivalent
Matthew Effect
Synthetic Instruction
Rate
42. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
Semantics
Trigraph
Frank Smith
Standard score
43. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests
Battery
Derivative
Criterion-Referenced Test
Academic Achievement Tests
44. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
The Norman Conquest
Modern English
Six basic types of syllables
45. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
Old English
ALTA
CTOPP
Phonemic Awareness
46. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.
Chall's Stage 1
Simultaneous teaching
Standard deviation
Curriculum referenced tests
47. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
Letter naming Chart
[-'le
Battery
Prefix
48. English as a second language
Greek layer of language
Criterion-Referenced Test
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
ESL
49. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss
MSLE
Diagnostic tests
Norm-Referenced Test
Ability
50. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
IDEA
Prefix
Universal Screening
Chall's Stage 4